The Street Tacos, filled with kicking shredded beef and red chiles was a promising start. Unfortunately, these street tacos were tacos you could get off any street. In fact, El Pelon, which is literally two streets down, makes them arguably better.
Since little shreds of beef wrapped in a small tortilla were pretty good, we moved on to the Skirt Steak Fajitas, bigger shreds of beef wrapped in the same tortilla. Unfortunately, this sequel quickly went the way of the Pirates of the Caribbean series; downhill. The tortillas were good the first time, but the sequel of skillet strips of medium rare steak were well-seared yet devoid of any flavor. Add the blandest sautéed veggies ever, and all you’re left with is, “why is the salt gone?”
The Barrio Burger was a juicy-looking patty topped with a thick spread of avocado, carrying a jalapeno kick. So what a pity that it flopped more than…well…every film M Night Shaymalan made after Signs. The burger was more along the lines of Lady in the Water - the burger was the lady and the non-stop liter of grease that dripped out of it was the swimming pool she lived in. The chipotle fries sounded so promising yet it turned out to be a bigger farce than The Village. Spoiler alert: they don’t exist. They’re just regular fries with a side of chipotle mayo.
I had just purchased a groupon to Happy’s when an Urbandaddy email announced its replacement mere months after the grand opening. Someone wasn’t very happy with Happy’s and after perusing a slew of lukewarm yelp reviews and suffering through a meal at Barrio Cantina, I wonder if Happy’s was just too close to an oxymoron for comfort.
When the same owners replace one restaurant with another, the replacement is supposed to be an improvement. I never went to Happy’s, but judging by the reviews, Barrio seems to be a new version of the same old mediocrity. They say don’t knock what you haven’t tried but I’m knocking Barrio Cantina big time so you won’t have to try it.
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